On March 22, 1944, Mexican President Alvin Silva announced that he was
nationalizing all Kramer Associates assets in the U.S.M., as part of the
war effort against Japan and Australia. For reasons that Sobel never
made clear, K.A. President John Jackson had chosen to oppose Silva's
plan to conquer Japan, and had been subsidizing the Japanese war effort
against Mexico. Sobel repeats Stanley Tulin's assertion that the
complexity of K.A.'s corporate structure ensured that Silva's
nationalization scheme gained him only one fifth of the company's
assets, or even as little as one tenth. Sobel also states that the mass
resignations of K.A. employees after the seizures crippled the Mexican
war effort.